The IDF has issued emergency call up orders to six reserve battalions in light of new dangers on the Egyptian and Syrian borders. And the Knesset has given the IDF permission to summon a further 16 reserve battalions if necessary, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
h/t mike
We have done a good job in getting rid of dictators and with each one eliminated it has made the situation worse. Perhaps we should listen to Ron Paul and mind our own business. Stand with our allies like Israel and let the rest kill each other off to their hearts content. We certainly have a poor track record of picking winners and losers. Not that it matters because either side hates anything to do with Christianity. Don’t remember any Islamic country asking for our help in bringing them Democracy.
If things are heating up it’s probably summer…
Well my reserves didn’t call me up yet, so I might be late to the party…
Psalm 89:22 The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him.
23 I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“Don’t remember any Islamic country asking for our help in bringing them Democracy.”
1.) Iran’s crushed “Green Revolution” of 2009-10.
2.) Although Ahmed Shah Massoud didn’t specifically ask the US for help in fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida in the ’90s (he got old Red Army Afghan war surplus[!] armour from the Russians instead), Massoud was fighting for democracy.
Thanx for the information; I moved through to the article on the Ancient Seal found near the Temple Mount. The reference to Paris Hilton in the comments was “sharp”; cheers;
The media will say that it is Israel’s fault.
and we had to call up the reserves to put ONE battalion in the field in Afghanistan…thanks pierre…and jean…
http://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-approves-call-up-of-22-idf-battalions/
The IDF has issued emergency call up orders to six reserve battalions in light of new dangers on the Egyptian and Syrian borders. And the Knesset has given the IDF permission to summon a further 16 reserve battalions if necessary, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
Posted by: Bemused at May 2, 2012 2:55 PM
Possibly related: http://www.presstv.com/detail/237922.html
@bemused…the reality of today’s CF is that folks who are too fat to run are kept in because human rights requires that the military attempts to rehabilitate them before we can legally kick them out–this can take years. Unfortunately, if one is too unfit to pass the PT test, chances are they are too unfit to deploy overseas. Furthermore, the “decade of darkness” (actually three decades–from Trudea until 2002)really decimated the military. Please understand that every trigger puller (this includes the pilots who flew missions in Afghanistan) on the field of battle requires at least 5 people to support him–from the guys ensuring he has food, bullets and his vehicles have gas, the folks who fix his vehicles and weapon systems, the people who look after his pay, the HQ staff that come up with the plans. Note that for the Korean conflict, Canada had to use a special service force (essentially, soldiers recruited to fight that specific war since we didn’t have a large enough standing army at that time–and this was five years after WW2 ended)
new dangers on the Egyptian and Syrian borders.
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Israel has no worries.
Islam is a Religion of Peace.
@favill
I spent 20 years in the regforce military..during the truedough, Mulroney and crouton eras…I know what happened, I was there for it.
That still doesn’t change the fact that we had to use reserve forces to keep ONE battalion in the field in Afghanistan…not drawing from the entire regiment, but having to use reserve troops from all over the country to put boots on the ground.
Israel calls up TWENTY-TWO battalions from their reserves, not counting reg force…that syas something about the seriousness they take the world with.
meanwhile, we spent 5 million dollars to hang a swipe with a paint roller down a sheet of plywood in the National Gallery and call it ‘art’ and millions more on even more wasteful things like health care for an admitted terrorist and his family while they called for our destruction and then made some sort of hero out of his kid…the Americans can keep that one, they should just throw him into a concrete walled yard and chuck a grenade in with him…that’s what he felt was a proper thing to do.
Bemused @ 9:14, well said.
Hans, I think we know who will be the ultimate victor in the ME.
Bemused >
Nailed it, well said.
Just wait for the Libby Davies contingent of the NDP to hear about this. I wonder if they’ll bring it up during Question Period?
Nah…Mulcair knows Libby is the resident anti-semite, but he won’t want the public to know about it.
Israel, unlike Canada and the Euro-states, doesn’t have the luxury of being besotted by liberalism and denial of reality. They must win every major war, or Israel is destroyed and her Jewish citizens annihilated. As the truism goes, “If all the Arab states laid down their arms, there would be peace in the Middle East. If Israel laid down it’s arms, it would be destroyed.”
What danger they face on the Syrian border? Syria’s forces can’t even take on Syria.
Spring schedule:
May – presidential election in Egypt
– parliamentary elections in Greece (google Golden Dawn & Greece)
June – elections to National Congress in Libya
Summer schedule:
” these days you can not swing dead cat without hitting a black swan”
Peterj >
Bang on, we need to mind our own business!
But that also shouldn’t mean a free lunch. We stay out of their business and they stay out of ours. No immigration, no student visa’s, no foreign aid, not more technology sell offs!
Trade no problem, food & medicine for oil, which should be the extent of our involvement, period. When they sort out their issues regardless of whether it’s 1 year or a thousand years, then we’ll talk.
favill
Yeah….this supply/support train thing started emerging during WW2…
When Tet began….the US had over 500,000 in Viet Nam…but only about 30,000 were combat troops…trigger pullers.
Effectively we were out numbered 3-1….but that clumsey supply/support train made the difference…an advantage the VC and NVA lacked.
“An army marches on it’s stomack.”
Napolean Bonoparte
If the US or Canada go isolationist, ALL the cultural organizations of people of Central and Eastern European origin will SCREAM about Central and Eastern Europe being left to the tender mercies of Tsar Vlady.
Apparently “Knight 99” can withstand the uproar of a million Canadian Ukrainians and Canadian Poles (500,000 of each) when the Russian bear starts wandering.
meanwhile…let’s see just how ‘flexible’ ‘bama suddenly becomes and how many times he apologizes while bending over for putin’s demands….watch for another ‘Prague spring’…
Russia threatens to strike NATO missile defense sites
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/3/russia-threatens-strike-nato-missile-defense-sites/
Russia’s most senior military officer said Thursday that Moscow would pre-emptively strike and destroy U.S.-led NATO missile defense sites in Eastern Europe if talks with Washington about the developing system continue to stall.
“A decision to use destructive force pre-emptively will be taken if the situation worsens,” Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov said at an international missile defense conference in Moscow attended by senior U.S. and NATO officials.
One major illusion among some people, such as peterj, is that we can stick to minding our own business. That is precisely what the Americans were doing in September 2001 when al Quaida, who had been allies n Afghanistan, flew aircraft into the Twin Towers in Manhattan and into the Pentagon. It wasn’t even the first time – there had been a serious attack on the Twin Towers a few years before; which was ignored.
And then there is the little matter of the Toronto 19. What had we done to provoke them, except encourage them to earn a living here? Now mind you, most of us wouldn’t mind the removal of the CN Tower, it is an eyesore, but we can’t leave that sort of demolition to amateurs 🙂
To peterj and all his ilk, here is a question you should answer: how long does it take to get from Waziristan to downtown Toronto?
the liebrals bought 4…they still can’t launch a torpedo between them
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/israel-gets-its-fourth-submarine-from-germany-capable-of-launching-nuclear-warheads/2012/05/03/gIQAUfn9yT_story.html
JERUSALEM — Israel on Thursday received its fourth German-made submarine capable of launching nuclear warheads, expanding a fleet that experts say could be used in an attack on Iran.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that the submarine would increase Israel’s capabilities and strength “in the face of the growing regional challenges.”
and for those that want to buy the cheapest A/C going…or somehow keep using 40 year old airframes in a high-G flight environment…you get what you pay for.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9243588/Indian-airforce-loses-half-its-planes.html
India’s Russian MiG fighter jets have been branded ‘flying coffins’ after the government revealed more than half of its 872-strong fleet had crashed since the mid-1960s.
Retired Air Marshall AK Singh said India had no alternative to buying MiGs until its recent economic rise.
There was scarcity of funds for procurement of new technology planes and the only option left with us was to fly these MIGs,” he said.
↑ Shh, “Bemused”, don’t give Bob Rae and his Lieberal defence critic any ideas re. replacing the CF-18!
Or the Dippers for that matter!
jwkozak91 >
“Apparently “Knight 99″ can withstand the uproar of a million Canadian Ukrainians and Canadian Poles…”
Absolutely!
At the moment Obamba is drone leveling whole city blocks in Pakistan, is this really a smart move with the millions of Pakistanis now imported wholesale to the west? Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Syria, and on……..
This is what has gotten us into this multicultural mess in the first place.
BTW, most Ukrainians I know prefer to think of themselves as Canadian first and couldn’t find the Ukraine on a map. Canada or the US can’t stop Russia from invading anyone and Europe has its own nukes.
@ LAS @ 11:44, there could be spillover of uncontrolled forces from both Syria and Egypt in the event things go south even more. Obviously the Israelis think this is a real possibility. Just my take.
From Nathan Philips Square to the basement of Descent of the Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Church in Wadena, SK, Canadian Ukrainians organized rallies in support of the Orange Revolution.
You note I earlier said half a million Canadian Ukrainians. I agree that half of the one million Canadian Ukrainians couldn’t care less. That leaves the other half-million to jam up MP’s phone lines and email in-boxes the minute a Russian tank crosses the border.
I surmise that the Canadian Ukrainians you know aren’t Eastern Catholic or Ukrainian Orthodox. The priests of those churches _do care_ about their clerical leaders in Ukraine, and do somewhat motivate their congregants to speak up about Ukraine.
I agree that it’s time to wean the Ukrainian Canadian Congress off public funds, and the “Brotherhood of Ukrainian Catholics” and the Orthodox organization “Ukrainian Self-Reliance League” should go back to being self-reliant as they were from the _1920s_ to the Trudeaupian revolution.
Canadian Poles are no different, although due to the majority of the community leaving Poland during the Cold War, have fresher ties with Poland.
“Canada or the US can’t stop Russia from invading anyone”, yet there still _will_ be organized protests from Montreal to Vancouver and MPs _will_ hear their constituents about the invasion when it happens.
jwkozak91 >
Well all interesting and fine, although you have completely taken my first comment and turned it into some sort of personal Ukrainian/ Polish agenda that escapes me.
Anyway I’ll quote a little of my first comment – “When they sort out their issues regardless of whether it’s 1 year or a thousand years, then we’ll talk.” – K99
As far as I know there are no issues for us to discuss with Europe, Eastern Europe, or Russia that needs further sanctions than we have. We are talking about the Third World here.
We are not here to fight the Third Worlds petty tribal battles regardless of where they occur, we get it wrong every time, and we do not need micro civil wars in North America because we interfere or bring in bad blood. We can easily walk away, and we should.
“Well all interesting and fine, although you have completely taken my first comment and turned it into some sort of personal Ukrainian / Polish agenda that escapes me.”
The thing is you didn’t in this thread and haven’t in previous threads clarify what you meant in advocating disengagement from other continents. I’m pointing out that there are well-established relatively-large European Christian communities in Canada that would somewhat object to walling up behind a “Fortress North America” and damn the rest.
In saying “We are talking about the Third World here”, you have given me the clarity I was looking for vis-a-vis Putinism. Thanks, appreciated. 🙂
jwkozak91 >
“…you have given me the clarity I was looking for vis-a-vis Putinism”
That is the oddest assessment of anything I’ve ever written. I’m honestly not sure how to respond to such an absurd statement.
Anyway, ‘hopefully’ to be clear:
We are dealing with outrageously different & indifferent cultures in most of the third world, and spend billions of tax dollars f*cking up their 5000 year old societies worst than they already were (by our perceptions). We then spend billions of more dollars rebuilding what we destroy and importing the foreign problems to become our own domestic problems.
At the end of the day we’ve done nothing whatsoever for the foreign tribal nations that we decimate, we only create resentment, and we import their incompatible tribal ideologies wholesale into our own.
So lets stop for a minute and take a reality pill here – we are the power! We only need to cut these people and their cultures off our welfare tit and they will succumb, either by killing each other off completely or by meeting each other on mutual ground.
What is your problem with letting them work it out without our interference? That is what they keep telling us after all isn’t it, why be stupid and not listen to what they are telling you?
There are formerly Second-World European Christian nations that are now semi-democratic independent states that have experienced genocide at the hands of their neighbours in the 20th century, yet lack sufficient self-directed armed force to deter another attack from their hostile neo-totalitarian neighbours on their God-given inherent right to live as they choose.
Armenia, Poland and Ukraine have pre-Trudeaupian emigrant communities that care about what happens to these independent states, and these European emigre communities are well-integrated into the Canadian nation – which doesn’t fit the multicultural Trudeaupian self-separating Eastern religious tribal societies paradigm that both you and I loathe.
These genocide-scarred formerly Second-World societies are not tribal, nor do they follow Eastern religions foreign to Europe. The two semi-democracies are outside any protective military alliance, and all lack the biggest stick to defend themselves – nuclear weapons. If we leave Armenia alone it’ll be swallowed up by neo-totalitarian Azerbaijan and Turkey. If we leave Ukraine alone the eastern industrial half and Kiev – Russia’s Kosovo Polje – will be swallowed up by neo-totalitarian Russia, rendering statehood uneconomical. Fully democratic Poland doesn’t want an expanded aggressive neo-totalitarian Russia on it’s border again either.
If we let these non-tribal semi-democratic European Christian states “work it out without our interference” their neo-totalitarian neighbours won’t let them live. And half of their non-tribal European democratic Christian emigre communities will be screaming for intervention, as they see the genocides of Christian Europeans predictably returning.
The point: Half of the established integrated Eastern European democratic Christian emigre communities – represented by the “Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations” during the Cold War – have always wanted intervention, first to free Eastern Europe from the Soviet Empire, then to support Eastern Europe in the transition to democracy and free markets. Please don’t conflate and confuse this with non-European tribal societies wanting to be left alone.
jwkozak91 >
Wow, there is a mouth full, wasn’t it?
I suppose I routed out your cryptic agenda didn’t I?
“There are formerly Second-World European Christian nations that are now semi-democratic independent states that have experienced genocide at the hands of their neighbours in the 20th century, yet lack sufficient self-directed armed force to deter another attack from their hostile neo-totalitarian neighbours on their God-given inherent right to live as they choose.” – jwkozak91 >
Yes, and?
“..which doesn’t fit the multicultural Trudeaupian self-separating Eastern religious tribal societies paradigm that both you and I loathe…..
…….Please don’t conflate and confuse this with non-European tribal societies wanting to be left alone.” – .” – jwkozak91 >
Now from reading your own words!
Join the friggen club buddy! Everyone has some sort of bloody grievance “in the old country” that they are passionate about. This is Canada, so leave it alone. This is the whole problem with multiculturalism, foreign aid whatever, for every one side there is another, why the hell do I or my tax dollars care? You come to this county to leave it behind.
My ancestry is half Irish and half Ukrainian; do I give a rat’s ass what becomes of Ireland to the Ukraine? Hell no I’m a bloody Canadian, and fu*k you all from the “old country’ that were too stupid to get your shit together! My families came here made peace generations to get away for all of you F*CKS, not to work slave labor hard and to pay for your ridiculous problems in the homeland! Leave us Canadians alone, and sort yourselves out – we ran away from you friggen idiots!
@ Posted by: Knight 99 at May 3, 2012 11:47 PM
Bravo. Spoken like a TRUE Canadian.
peterj >
No shit, and I mean every word of it. As do all the real Canadian conservatives that stand up for Canada on this site, not some backwater spineless, commie, socialist Liberal twits that apologize for nothing and offer our hard earned money and youthful blood to nobodies for nothing.
To hell with all of these countries that come crawling on their bellies for our money after they spit us out or made us flee their shit holes!
WE OWE YOU NOTHING.
(My posting is from a small iPod I’m not really as illiterate as these typos indicate).
Charles Adler has it all in a nutshell with this commentary from Jan.2011
http://charlesadler.com/2011/01/page/2/
In 1973 when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel the IDF has two brigades and 11 artillery batteries in the Golan.
The Syrians attacked with five full divisions including the latest russian tanks, night vision (Israel did not have night vision) and anti aircraft missiles along with 188 artillery batteries.
Last night I had a very nice bottle of Israeli wine grown on Mt Hermon in the Golan. That position was overrun by the Syrians at one point in the battle.
Egypt after initial gains suffered great losses in the attempt to retake the Sinai. In exchange for peace Israel gave it to them anyway. Now the Egyptians are losing Sinai again, but to terrorists, criminals, and smugglers. Two Egyptian soldiers there were killed by an RPG attack just yesterday. They are close to choosing to tear up the peace with Israel.
This move by IDF demonstrates that they have learned the lessons of history. Their enemies, so deluded by their own hatred and propoganda have not.
The IDF should never let that happen again.